I guess I'll join the fun (minitruck content)

[fackinsteve]

Truck looks great, sorry to hear about your dad.

One idea -- if you have the clear tails, it might look cool to take the yellow back off and have clear everything!

Thank you

I still have the lights I put my all red tails on for now. I'm enjoying the yellow headlights while the trucks black but I have a spare set of stock headlights and clear corners so I'll probably try that look out!

[rightfullrudder]

Truck looks great, sorry to hear about your dad.

One idea -- if you have the clear tails, it might look cool to take the yellow back off and have clear everything!

[fackinsteve]

Im not usually a fan of trucks, but I like how you've gone about lowering this one... The "buy something cheap" (and watch it fail) transition to "buy something with GREAT quality" and use it forever seems to be a common trend amongst us car guys. Looking forward to seeing what you've got in store for the truck.

Good Work!

Thank you!

[TruTaing]

Im not usually a fan of trucks, but I like how you've gone about lowering this one... The "buy something cheap" (and watch it fail) transition to "buy something with GREAT quality" and use it forever seems to be a common trend amongst us car guys. Looking forward to seeing what you've got in store for the truck.

Good Work!

[PRO-STAR]

looking real nice

[Luke Girard]

So nice! =)

[fackinsteve]

Moar pix

[SnazzyQ]

DAMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN GIRRRRLLLLLLLLL.

That looks amazing

[fackinsteve]

Also I forgot to mention I painted and installed my SS mirrors finally

Painted



Installed (still on 3" springs in this shot)



Making sure the glass doesnt crack under extreme load



Im in love with these i didnt realize how ugly my eBay specials were until these went on

[fackinsteve]

Is it tomorrow yet?

Yeah

[SnazzyQ]

Is it tomorrow yet?

[fackinsteve]

So I finally got around to installing my coilovers. With the help from a good friend and a couple of members for technical advice I got everything done in 2 days working very casually in my driveway.

So I got started on yesterday after work and got the passenger side done in about to hours. Now a big mistake I made was not checking if the spring was indexed, resulting in it lifting my truck about an inch, no bueno. I took the day off and took apart everything and got it sitting how it should Moving onto the driver side everything went smooth aside from getting hung up on the shock, once I got that out everything was cake. I made sure to grease the chassis points where the Spohn control arms mount to and anti seize the threads of the coilover sleeve. Once everything was buttoned up I measured from the fender to the ground. Before I was 24" on the driver side and 24.5" on the passenger side with the 3" drop springs. I'm now 23" on the driver side and 23.5" on the passenger side. Once the springs settle I will install my tall ball joints so it will sit 23" even up front. Overall I'm pretty happy with how it sits and I take pride in the fact I didn't just chop the springs. I didn't take many pictures of the process but its pretty self explanatory.




Will take better pictures tomorrow!

[cosmo135]

I agree driving a low low car going 60+ imo is so scary

[fackinsteve]

Hello everyone, I apologize for the lack of updates! Ive been dealing with a lot of stuff since the passing of my father but im slowly getting back on track of this. Here are some highlights of the past month

I measured weiner



Did it again



Had a pepsi



Received coil overs



Attached a flag



Had a coke



Removed flag



My spohn control arms are supposed to be here on Thursday so depending on how things go I may have them installed this weekend. I will also be using Proforged taller lower ball joints. This truck is no longer a daily so I will probably end up removing my inner fenders til I can make a set of tubs for it. I still have quite a bit to do but Ive got most of the expensive stuff out of the way at this point.

Things left to do:

Raised carrier bearing xmember
Raised gas tank crossmember
Tubs (+all other associated stuff)
Interior stuff (Grip Royal, Quick release, repaint interior trim, door panels, seats, etc.)
aaaand paint! Color wise im not quite sure what i want to do, I love black but I **** keeping it clean. Feel free to leave me suggestions. But yeah thats pretty much it for now, hopefully i have updates this weekend

[fackinsteve]

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, I really haven't been doing much to the truck aside from driving. Still have a broken exhaust but I do have a few more things I'd like to do this year.

I've really just been taking it to shows and stuff, I got caught rolling to the broke.east meet out at Mohegan Sun.



Haha the only reason I made that face is because every time I go somewhere one of my friends takes a rolling shot and I said after, "I don't understand why you take rolling shots everywhere. Its the same truck doing the same shot, that's boring!" Well this came out better than I thought so I apologized for my grumpy statement.

I spent the rest of the day chillin with Lambos and GTRs





Twas a good day.

Then I got bored so I took the rest of my lamin-x overlays and put them on my clear corners



I was worried about the amber not being able to show through but it does perfectly.

Then one day I saw a unicorn on a Facebook page so I immediately purchased for $25 more than he was asking



I've always wanted a set of APC clear tails! I think they look awesome, definitely a cool item to have for sure. But that's it for now, progress will continue to be slow for awhile since I'm dealing with some family things right now. But we will see